Caterham

Overview

In 1973 Lotus Cars decided to cease manufacturing the successful Seven and concentrate its efforts on its more modern products, thankfully the Seven would continue in production as the Caterham Seven. The Caterham company purchased all of the manufacturing rights for the Seven and continued production of the previous Lotus design, which had been available since 1970.

Since 1974 Caterham have continued to develop and build derivatives based on the Lotus Seven S3, the model which preceded the S4. Today the company also builds the 21 sports model, which although offering more creature comforts, sells in much smaller numbers than the Seven!